Our Impact
As a self-help, volunteer driven, non profit organization, we take great pride in what we have achieved so far in challenging stigma and social discrimination, improving the socio-economic livelihoods of people living with HIV (PLHIV) as well as changing stereotypes of HIV at the national level. We have empowered our PLHIV members by helping them build their capacity, implement their own projects, and by serving as change agents for PLHIV. We also delegate the ownership of PWN+ projects to members by involving members from project design to implementation, to monitoring and evaluation. Also, we have tied up with partner organizations to establish
micro-finance projects for PLHIV as well as providing knowledge on treatment literacy through workshops through a collaborative fund.
PWN+ has been in the forefront of advocacy work, having been a partner of the National Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS, and has been actively involved in advocating the global and national policies for PLHIV for their care and support. It is a member of AIDS Foundation Lanka and CCM, and have been a leading advocate for PLHIV rights and services in Sri Lanka. The organization has single-handedly helped to uplift the lives of PLHIV, by bettering their and their families' living standards by introducing them to sustainable methods of income generation, while protecting their human rights and caring for their physical and mental well being.
Our Partners
Community for Concern Society (CCS)
CCS is a non-profit, charitable, non-governmental Christian organization. CCS provides all funding required to run one of the drop-in centres under PWN+. The funding covers costs for rent, utility bills, necessary medicine and testing for members, costs for home visits and counselling members and affected families, travelling costs for members, meals, monthly allowance for 3 members, and sundry expenses.
Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka (FPA Sri Lanka)
FPA Sri Lanka is the pioneer institution to initiate and establish a space for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services in the country. The FPA provides technical support, food, capacity building for members of PWN+, and works with PWN+ to provide necessary medication for PLHIV when the funds from CCS cannot cover the costs as well as all other emergency situations.
Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH)
The IDH provides care and support for hospitalized PLHIV, conducts awareness programmes for health staff and members of PWN+ on nutrition, and provides care for PLHIV. The IDH works closely with PWN+ to provide all medical care/medicine that the hospital cannot provide. The IDH informs PWN+ of medication and testing that is required so PWN+ can buy or carry out the necessary tests. It also refers patients for counselling and post hospital care to PWN+. From there, PWN+ tests sexual partners and families of PLHIV and refers patients to counsellors. Dr Ananda Wijewikrema, Consulting Physician of IDH has served as a key strength and support to Princey throughout.
Alliance Development Trust (ADT)
ADT supports the second centre which is more of a live-in centre, that is run by PWN+ by providing finances for rent, utility bills, etc., as well as for legal or technical support. Every month, ADT facilitates
awareness programmes on nutrition, medicine, and SRH for members at PWN+. ADT also supports livelihood activities by providing the core grant for start-up businesses and provides guidance for members to
successfully implement the same.
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